Personal Productivity & Efficient Meetings
Course Type: Training Course
This course has two symbiotic sessions focused on efficient work practices. Participants take inventory of their current actions lists and section their work into four categories. Participants work to systemically improve their productivity using the Eisenhower Matrix. Participants audit and scorecard various meetings they take part in. Output is analyzed for sustained and measurable meeting improvement. Facilitation skills are practiced and applied in group exercises.
Objectives
To gain insight into productivity frameworks that accelerate the personal productivity of individual contributors
To incorporate best practices for meeting management
To apply systemic solutions that rectify gaps in productivity and address inefficiencies in meetings
Content
The Eisenhower Matrix and personal productivity
Measuring progress and identifying opportunities and pitfalls in personal workloads, i.e. ‘too busy’
Understanding meeting types and objectives, i.e. 1-to-1’s, team, committee, consensus, problem-solving
Setting meeting agendas and executing timing
How to improve meeting engagement and quality through facilitation techniques